Bottling-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BRYAN, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.V

BOTTLING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters V:Patent No. 285,458, dated September 25, 1883,

Application led February '7, 1883. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN BRYAN, of Bloomington, in thecounty of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottling Machines, of which the following, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical central cross-section, from front to rear, of a bot tling-machine embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a like representation enlarged, and showing only the upper part of themachine; and Fig. 3 is a perspective of the lifting rod and hook.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention relates to that class of bottlingmachines adapted to draw internal looped stoppers to their seat or closed position in the neck of bottles being filled with eifervescent contents. Machines of this class have been provided with a illing-head adapted to fit upon the mouth of the bottle, and with a verticallymovable stopper-raiser adapted to engage the loop of the stopper and draw the latter to its seat. An objectionablefeature in the operation of such machines is that the hook, in order that it may engage the loop of the stopper with certainty, has been made of such a size that it was liable, in its descent, to strike the rim of the bottle-neck and break or injure the bottle, or else push the stopper-loop so far laterally that the hook, on being raised, would fail to engage the loop and raise the stopper. On this account the machine would fail in some instances to perform its work. i

My object is to overcome this objectionable feature in the operation of the machine, and ,to that end I employ, as the feature of my invention, and in combination with the stopperraiser, a nger or guide adapted and arranged to carry the stopper-loop laterally back over the hook in such instances, as the loop might otherwise be pushed too far laterally to be caught by the ascending hook.

In the drawings, A represents a bottling-machine of the class hereinbefore referred to. B

is a suitable supporting table or bench. C is a treadle, and D is a bottle-seat connected pivotally to the inner or rear end ofthe said treadle. E is a bracket, and F is the filling-head supported thereby. G is a vertically-vibrating lever jointed to the said "bracket, and H is the stopper-raiser, made hook-shaped on its lower end and jointed to the said lever.

As all the parts so far as now referred to are old, and their construction and operationV well known, a further or more particular description thereof is unnecessary, and I do not here intend to claim the same, broadly. These machines, as is well known, are also made in various ways, or contain features of construction somewhat different from those shown and described, but all belong to the same general class, and it is not my intention to restrict myself to mere details of construction.

I is the nger or guide to insure the engageguide I in this manner the hook maybe made y much smaller, lighter, and cheaper than heretofore, and the danger of its striking the neck of the bottle is greatly, if not wholly, diminished. Important practical results or advantages are thus attained by very simple means.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a stopper-guide, I, with the hooked stopper-raiser of a bottling-machine, for the purposes set forth.

4, JOHN BRYAN.

Witnesses: v g

EDWARD HAYWAED, G. W. ATKINsoN. 

